i386 d-i image for Sarge, with kernel 2.6.18 (early test release)

Last week Pascal, who is a friend of bubulle, asked me how he could make ISO image with kernel 2.6.18 for Sarge.

Timely I'd like to have a kernel 2.6.18 image for myself also (I bought Core2Duo machine. It has VIA VT8237A SATA controller isn't supported before 2.6.18), I made it.

You can take it from the usual place; sarge-custom-1008.iso for i386.

• Backported 2.6.18 kernel from unstable.
• LVM/RAID will *NOT* work. Maybe I have to backport partman and dmraid to support them, but I haven't done yet.
• Since kernel 2.6.17, Debian kernel team merged SMP support to a single kernel. So don't panic even -smp kernel isn't installed. ISO image has -486, -686, -686-bigmem, and -k7.
• I haven't AHCI machine and I don't know PATA CD vs SATA HD problem still happen on 2.6.18. But I add a feature "atapi=true" boot option. When you append this option as the boot parameter, the installer will add the configuration to /etc/modprobe.conf.